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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 火上加油
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 火上加油 | huǒ shàng jiā yóu | - to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation - to enrage people and make matters worse |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 40,544 | 70,488 | 66,566 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 火 | huǒ | - surname Huo |
| 火 | huǒ | - fire - urgent - ammunition - fiery or flaming - internal heat (Chinese medicine) - hot (popular) - classifier for military units (old) - Kangxi radical 86 |
| 上 | shǎng | - used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1] |
| 上 | shàng | - (bound form) up; upper; above; previous - first (of multiple parts) - to climb; to get onto; to go up - to attend (class or university) - (directional complement) up - (noun suffix) on; above |
| 加 | jiā | - Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1na2da4]) - surname Jia |
| 加 | jiā | - to add - (math.) plus - to increase; to augment - (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1jia1 gai3liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)") |
| 油 | yóu | - oil - fat - grease - petroleum - to apply tung oil, paint or varnish - oily - greasy - glib - cunning |
Other Words Containing 火上加油
Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.
| Word | HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 火上加油 | - | - | 40,544 | 70,488 | 66,566 |